Tidy-holder



(No moaem W. G. BROWNE.

TIDY HOLDER.

No. 449,898.' Patented Apr. '7,- 1891.

' upon the chair more firm; and the invention UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM G. BROVVNE, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

TlDY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,898, dated April 7, 1891.

Application filed January 5, 1891.

To all whom it mcty concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BROWNE, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Tidy- Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in Figure 1, a perspective View illustrating the invention as a tidy-holder; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the holder detached; Fig. 3, a vertical central section showing the holder as applied. Fig. 4 represents the blank from which the holder is made.

This invention relates to a device for securingtidies upon chairs and other places, adapt-v ed also for other purposes, the object beinga device of simple construction, easily applied, and in which the natural strain upon the tidy will but tend to make its engagement or hold consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim. The holder is best made from ablank of sheet metal, as seen in Fig. 4. This blank consists of a body A, having a loop B at one end, preferably of ring shape, and witha loop C at the other end, the sides of the loop diverging from the body, so as to form a V- shaped loop with the apex toward the body, and preferably the extreme end of the loop is constructed with a projection D to form a grasping-j aw. The shank thus formed is bent into shape, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, theloop A preferably remaining flat, the body and the loop C bent backward and downward, terminating in the jaw-piece D, as clearly seen in Figs. 2 and 3. The curvature described is best made of substantially circular shape, and of somewhat more than half a circle, and so as to bring the jaw D into a plane parallel with the loop A, as seen in Fig.3. This completes the article. It is applied as seen in Fig. 1. The tidy is first placed upon the chair, and then the holder set over the tidy Serial No. 376,719. (No model.)

onto the baclcof the chair with the loop atthe front, and so as to clasp the tidy upon the chair, the jaw B passing down at the rear. A portion of the tidy is then gathered up and passed through the loop- B from the inside outward, thence over backward and introduced into the loop C, and then drawn forward to bring the part so introduced into the contracted part of the loop C, as seen inFigs. 1 and 3, and so as to engage therewith after the manner of well-knownV-shaped garmentsupporters Thus applied, any strainupon the tidy tending to draw it downtro'rn the back of the chair is resisted by the holder, and that resistance is increased by the strain upon the tidy.

. \Vhile I prefer to construct the holder with the jaw-extension D, that extension may be omitted, it not being essential to the practical working of the holder.

The holder may be employed for other purposes-as, for illustration, a substitute fol-curtain-rings-the holder being set over the bar and a portion of the curtain drawn up through the loop B, over and engaged with the loop C, the holder being adapted to slide upon the rod as curtain-rings, it such movement of the holder is desired. This illustration will be sufficient to enable others to apply the invention to the various purposes for which it may be employed.

I claim The herein-described holder for tidies and other purposes, consisting of the body A, constructed with a loop B at one end and witha loop C at the opposite end, the sides of the said loop C diverging from the body, so as to form substantially a V shape, with the apex toward the body, the body and the loop C curved or bent backward from the loop B, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

XVILLIAM G. BROXVNE.

Witnesses:

" JOHN E. EARLE, FRED O. EARLE. 

